VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To further develop products and applications relating to Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology, Huawei and Vodafone together came up with an Narrowband IoT Open Lab. The Narrowband IoT Open Lab will provide a pre-integration testing environment for application developers and device, module and chip manufacturers. The Narrowband IoT Open Lab will offer support to developers and partners. They will work with both companies to explore developments including network solution verification, new application innovation, device integration, and product compliance certification. Huawei has plans to open seven such labs... Read more

To better understand the changing needs of customers, Brocade has conducted its annual channel trends survey. The company has unveiled results for the survey which was completed by more than 1,200 global  Brocade channel partners from its distributor and reseller communities. With this survey, Brocade has identified that how it can provide more strategic networking solutions to its partners. The results show that there is a clear opportunity for the channel to seize a competitive advantage in the industry by strategically advising global enterprises and organizations on hybrid cloud networks, data center bandwidth management, and network virtualization – by leveraging the Brocade product portfolio... Read more

Schneider Electric (SE) is seeking to leverage its Internet of Things (IoT)-driven competencies to bring about process efficiency across businesses in India. IoT is an emerging industry in India and is expected to cross $15 billion by 2020. To support this industry, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has come out with a draft IoT policy that aims at building an entire ecosystem around IoT and to incentivize the players in the ecosystem. Home and building, manufacturing, consumer electronics, retail, power, transportation and healthcare are some of the key sectors which are likely to see major spendings on IoT. SE has developed operator training simulators (OTS) that leverage IoT technologies so that knowledge can be transferred and skills developed in months – not years. OTS allows workers to experience and respond to simulated high-risk control room situations in a risk-free virtual-reality environment. Similar to how airline pilots ...

Nokia has hosted the India Innovation Day in Bangalore at the Nokia Technology Centre and showcased over 30 futuristic technologies and demonstrations on various R&D projects. Nokia’s real-time live demonstrations highlighted company’s innovations in Telco Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and Analytics & 1000x Capacity among many other innovative  technologies in the mobile broadband segment. These technologies represented the entire gamut of products, features, and applications that Nokia is currently working on worldwide. These diverse technologies and over-arching themes across the various demonstrations and presentations, reflected major industry trends that are ready to take on the technology in future... Read more

Verizon has announced its global strategy to simplify the Internet of Things (IoT) and accelerate market adoption. Verizon’s plan includes: Launching ThingSpace: a new IoT platform allowing developers to create applications, customers to manage devices, partners to market their services, and Verizon to launch integrated vertical solutions simply, in an open environment. Creating a new dedicated network core and new connectivity options for the next-generation of IoT use cases Driving innovation to tackle big challenges in agriculture, healthcare, the consumer electronics evolution and the sharing economy Commercializing Verizon’s big data analytics engine for IoT deployments Introducing three new end-to-end smart cities solutions, Intelligent Video, Intelligent Lighting and Intelligent Traffic Management... Read more

Over 20 percent of enterprises will have digital security services devoted to protecting business initiatives using devices and services in the Internet of Things (IoT) by year end 2017, according to Gartner. Gartner defines digital security as the risk-driven expansion and extension of current security risk practices that protect digital assets of all forms in the digital business and ensures that relationships among those assets can be trusted. “The IoT now penetrates to the edge of the physical world and brings an important new ‘physical’ element to security concerns. This is especially true as billions of things begin transporting data,” said Ganesh Ramamoorthy, research vice president at Gartner. “The IoT redefines security by expanding the scope of responsibility into new platforms, services and directions. Moving forward, enterprises should consider reshaping IT or cybersecurity strategies to incorporate known digital business goals and seek participation in digital busines...

Telit has announced the introduction of Pan-European coverage with enhanced performance, one roaming price for all operators. Features include seamless roaming across Europe as well as Russia and Turkey; In addition, value-added services that allow customers to remotely manage and troubleshoot their deployment (e.g. roaming steering control by the end customer) are offered, thereby improving serviceability and transparency to their end customers. M2M/IoT deployment faces different challenges than consumer subscribers. Connectivity offering is often not suitable for the life cycle of a M2M/IoT solution. telit logo Telit Introduces Connectivity Solution for the Internet of Things“Many IoT projects have failed because operators could not provide the right business solution,” said Sammy Yahiaoui, Services Sales Manager EMEA at Telit. “Now connectivity comes out-of-the box for a fixed, comprehensive and affordable price. It’s tightly integrated with the hardware, the modules, and a p...

To improve efficiency, enable new business models, and enhance productivity and profitability, organizations around the world will use machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, with Internet of Things becomes a reality. M2M technologies that encompass devices, networks, platforms and applications will allow networked machines to exchange information and take intelligent action. As long as Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding, devices are becoming cheaper and more powerful, seamless and reliable. New analytics technologies and business intelligence solutions are able to get deeper insight from raw data even as M2M solutions are continuing to mature. From a Solutions providers (SPs) perspective all of this means that SPs can use data from M2M systems to improve efficiency, develop new business models and generate revenue both for themselves and their customers. m2m technologies M2M is the new way to develop networking businessAccording to a statement, the India Machine to Machine (M...

STMicroelectronics has boosted its STM32F0 Value Line ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller series, adding USB connectivity and larger Flash options to enhance support for cost-sensitive consumer, smart-energy, communication-gateway, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Six new devices now join the entry-level 32-bit STM32F0 Value Line to address the 8-bit and 16-bit applications. These extend developers’ flexibility to use the same microcontroller architecture for a wide range of needs, and allow the customer to introduce new products to market quickly and efficiently. The new devices open access to the wider STM32 portfolio, with over 600 part numbers leveraging the full spectrum of ARM Cortex-M cores and extensive development support. The new STM32F030CC and STM32F030RC Value Line devices feature 256KB program Flash in 48-pin or 64-pin LQFP packages. Moreover, USB 2.0 Full Speed interface is now available in four new STM32F070 Value Line devices compliant with Battery Charger De...